I want to change the font to something snazzier in my Chart.JS horizontal bar chart. I've tried the following, but none of it works:
var optionsBar = {
. . .
//fontFamily: "'Candara', 'Calibri', 'Courier', 'serif'"
//bodyFontFamily: "'Candara', 'Calibri', 'Courier', 'serif'"
//bodyFontFamily: "'Candara'"
label: {
font: {
family: "Georgia"
}
}
};
I also read that this would work:
Chart.defaults.global.defaultFont = "Georgia"
...but where would this code go, and how exactly should it look? I tried this:
priceBarChart.defaults.global.defaultFont = "Georgia";
...but also to no good effet.
For the full picture/context, here is all the code that makes up this chart:
HTML
<div class="chart">
<canvas id="top10ItemsChart" class="pie"></canvas>
<div id="pie_legend"></div>
</div>
JQUERY
var ctxBarChart =
$("#priceComplianceBarChart").get(0).getContext("2d");
var barChartData = {
labels: ["Bix Produce", "Capitol City", "Charlies Portland",
"Costa Fruit and Produce", "Get Fresh Sales",
"Loffredo East", "Loffredo West", "Paragon", "Piazza Produce"],
datasets: [
{
label: "Price Compliant",
backgroundColor: "rgba(34,139,34,0.5)",
hoverBackgroundColor: "rgba(34,139,34,1)",
data: [17724, 5565, 3806, 5925, 5721, 6635, 14080, 9027,
25553]
},
{
label: "Non-Compliant",
backgroundColor: "rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5)",
hoverBackgroundColor: "rgba(255, 0, 0, 1)",
data: [170, 10, 180, 140, 30, 10, 50, 100, 10]
}
]
}
var optionsBar = {
scales: {
xAxes: [{
stacked: true
}],
yAxes: [{
stacked: true
}]
},
//fontFamily: "'Candara', 'Calibri', 'Courier', 'serif'"
//bodyFontFamily: "'Candara', 'Calibri', 'Courier', 'serif'"
//bodyFontFamily: "'Candara'"
//Chart.defaults.global.defaultFont = where does this go?
label: {
font: {
family: "Georgia"
}
}
};
var priceBarChart = new Chart(ctxBarChart, {
type: 'horizontalBar',
data: barChartData,
options: optionsBar
});
//priceBarChart.defaults.global.defaultFont = "Georgia";
I even tried this:
CSS
.candaraFont13 {
font-family:"Candara, Georgia, serif";
font-size: 13px;
}
HTML
<div class="graph_container candaraFont13">
<canvas id="priceComplianceBarChart"></canvas>
</div>
...but I reckon the canvas drawing takes care of the font appearance, as adding this made no difference.
I tried this and it completely broke it:
Chart.defaults.global = {
defaultFontFamily: "Georgia"
}
As Matthew intimated, this worked (before any of the chart-specific script):
Chart.defaults.global.defaultFontFamily = "Georgia";
This should be useful: http://www.chartjs.org/docs/. It says "There are 4 special global settings that can change all of the fonts on the chart. These options are in Chart.defaults.global
".
You'll need to change defaultFontFamily
for the font. And defaultFontColor
, defaultFontSize
, and defaultFontStyle
for color, size, etc.